Influence of Alcohol on Progeny 

 Dogs (Hodge) 



Venereal Diseases and Heredity: The alarming 

 prevalence of syphilis and gonorrhoea calls for action in 

 the prevention of marriages of tainted persons. Although 

 these diseases are not heritable in the true sense of the 

 term, yet their occurrence amounts almost to a certainty 

 that the children will contract them. Infantile blind- 

 ness and pelvic disorders of women follow gonorrhoea, 

 while paresis, locomotor ataxia, and arterio-sclerosis, and 

 feeble-mindedness of the children follow syphilis. It would 

 seem advisable that medical inspection before marriage 

 should be enforced for the sake of the children and the wel- 

 fare of the state. 



In order to prevent the transmission of undesirable 

 germ plasm the following proposals have been made by 

 eugenists:— 



a. More stringent marriage laws, 



b. Sexual segregation of defectives, 



c. Stricter control of immigration, and 



d. Measures of sterilization of dangerous defectives 

 by vasectomy and oophorotomy. 



From the positive euthenic standpoint much inprove- 

 ment might be effected by reforms in social conditions that 

 prevent marriage of desirables, by a campaign to enlighten 



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